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'''Orna Guralnik''' (born 1964) <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-05-13 |title=The Therapist Remaking Our Love Lives on TV |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/couples-therapy-showtime-orna-guralnik |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref> is an [[American-Israeli]] psychologist and psychoanalyst most known for her role in the TV series [[Couples Therapy (2019 TV series)|''Couples Therapy'']].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=About |url=http://www.ornaguralnik.com/about |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=Orna Guralnik, PsyD |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Early life ==
Guralnik is the daughter of Nehama and Daniel Guralnik who worked together at the Israeli Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]]. When Guralnik was two her father, an aeronautical engineer, received a job offer and the family moved to [[Atlanta]] for five years until moving again to [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-10 |title=Couples Therapy's Dr. Orna Guralnik Knows You're Watching Her |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a40245716/orna-guralnik-couples-therapy-interview/ |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=ELLE |language=en-us}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2022-02-09 |title=Dr. Orna Guralnik, star of Showtime's 'Couples Therapy': 'People said it would destroy my career' - Haaretz.com |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209121020/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-people-said-it-would-ruin-my-career-says-couples-therapy-star-dr-guralnik-1.9897493 |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> She describes her parents as identified with a secular, [[Socialism|Socialist]] and [[Zionism|Zionist]] identity.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Guedes-Reed |first=Caleb |date=2022-05-06 |title=How Orna Guralnik went from the Israeli army to ‘Couples Therapy’ stardom |url=https://www.jta.org/2022/05/06/culture/how-orna-guralnik-went-from-the-israeli-army-to-couples-therapy-stardom |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>
Guralnik remembers the conflict in her parent's marriage as being very influential on her. Her mother had found success working at the [[Tel Aviv Museum of Art]] and Guralnik notes how the marriage went "through a rearrangement of a very patriarchal understanding of their marriage to a more feminist one".<ref name=":0" />
At the age of sixteen, Guralnik had begun to act out and her parents negotiated with her to see a therapist.<ref name=":0" />
Before pursuing psychology, she had interests in dance, studying under [[Rina Schenfeld]] and also studied film at [[Tel Aviv University]].<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":3" /> Eventually in 1990, she moved to [[New York City]] and began studying Psychology at [[Yeshiva University]].<ref name=":0" />
== Career ==
She has published on a range of subjects including [[Depersonalization]] and [[Self-harm]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Select Publications |url=http://www.ornaguralnik.com/select-publications |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=Orna Guralnik, PsyD |language=en-US}}</ref> She helped found a centre for studying depersonalization and dissociation at [[Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)|Mount Sinai Medical School]].<ref name=":2" />
She describes her approach to couples therapy as drawing from Systems theory which sees the relationship as an interconnected entity rather than two separate individuals.<ref name=":1" />
In 2019 she was asked by Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg and Eli Despres to act as the couples therapist for [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime's]] [[Couples Therapy (2019 TV series)|''Couples Therapy'']] alongside her [[supervisor]] Virginia Goldner.<ref>{{Citation |title=120- COUPLES THERAPY (ft. Dr. Orna Guralnik) |date=2021-05-12 |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Wh3AY5LBHHouGKDA7FsEN |language=en |access-date=2023-01-16}}</ref> For this role she was nominated for Female Star of the Year in the [[2nd Critics' Choice Real TV Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=2nd Annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards – List of Nominees and Winners – Critics Choice Awards |url=https://www.criticschoice.com/2020/06/29/2nd-annual-critics-choice-real-tv-awards-list-of-nominees-and-winners/ |access-date=2023-01-24 |language=en-US}}</ref> Each series is filmed over 20 weeks which she completes alongside her psychoanalytic practice.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reese |first=Hope |date=2022-05-30 |title=Dr. Orna Guralnick Will Serve You a Dose of Reality |url=https://www.thecut.com/2022/05/how-orna-guralnick-gets-it-done.html |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=The Cut |language=en-us}}</ref> In 2021 she appeared in an advert for [[Userway]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lovejoy |first=Ben |date=2022-05-19 |title=Siri visits Couples Therapy star Dr. Orna Guralnik in sketch for web accessibility company |url=https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/19/siri-visits-couples-therapy-star/ |access-date=2023-01-24 |website=9to5Mac |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
Guralnik is a mother to two children, Jasper and Ruby.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cuddeford |first=Callum |date=2022-01-10 |title=Couples Therapy's Dr Orna Guralnik’s kids and belief show could 'destroy career' |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/tv/bbc-couples-therapy-host-dr-22705010 |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=MyLondon |language=en}}</ref> She has a [[Alaskan Klee Kai]] named Nico.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hirons |first=Paul |date=2022-01-24 |title=Where is Dr Orna Guralnik on Couples Therapy from and who is her husband? |url=https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/tv/where-is-dr-orna-guralnik-on-couples-therapy-from-and-who-is-her-husband/ |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=Entertainment Daily |language=en-GB}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.ornaguralnik.com/}}
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{{Uncategorized|date=January 2023}}
[[Category:American women television personalities]]
[[Category:Jewish psychoanalysts]]
[[Category:Israeli women academics]]
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